A diary of life in rural Redwood, Co. Tipperary as told by a city girl

As the theme for January’s Irish Foodies Cookalong was “budget/leftover”, I decided it was a good day to start clearing out the fridge and the freezer! They were both in a dreadful state and this was just the motivation I needed!

I may have carried the theme to excess as I used it as an excuse to do a ‘leftover’ lunch and continued it on into the following week…. that freezer really did need to be cleared out! 🙂

So the fridge clear out gave us lunch on Cookalong Day comprising of soup made up from some leftover Tomato Sauce, leftover Piperonata (we had had pizza earlier in the week). Add in some stock. The piece de resistance actually turned out to be the bowl of the Deluxe Tomato & Sausage Pasta from another meal during the week being thrown in too! So you had a kind of Minestrone Soup in the end.

As you can see it didn’t last very long! That and some fresh bread perfect budget lunch!

Dinner that evening was the delicious Turkey Con Chilli a la Jamie Oliver which is a recipe I discovered last Christmas. So if you still have some leftover turkey lurking in your freezer – get it out and try this.